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Welcome to the final episode of Citizen Jane: Season One! Odysseys are epic(in the real old school sense) journeys. The standard epic hero (a flawed dude w/many muscles, natch) goes on many adventures, has his fortune upended several times, does some heroic stuff, and returns home in the end. We're oversimplifying here, of course (don't @ us, Milton stans), but: epics are highly individualistic genres that follow a single hero whose heroic adventures will impact his whole society. Gendered pronouns here used intentionally. Odysseys in particular require said hero to return home, like Odysseus does to Penelope. In this episode, we follow three characters who venture on odysseys that transform the genre in fascinating, moving ways: Sin-dee and Alexandra in 2015's Tangerine and Ree in 2005's Winter's Bone. We ask one another a bunch of questions like: What does an odyssey look like if you're not a cisgendered white dude? What does it mean to return "home" if your home is perilous or diffuse? What does "returning home" look like when you're a poor white teenager in rural Appalachia or a Black sex worker in Los Angeles' Hollywood neighbourhood? How do we even talk about an "odyssey"--a genre with a dude's name IN THE TITLE--without feeding right back into bullshit narratives about heroism? Do you have thoughts on non-hegemonic odysseys? We really want to hear about it: instagram.com/citizenjanepod twitter.com/citizenjanepod citizenjanepodcast@gmail.com rate us on itunes, we think? we still don't know why that's a thing we should want. tbh we probably won't look it up. but all the other pods ask for it so why not! give us a star or two.